The mitochondrial genome sequence of the ciliate Paramecium caudatum reveals a shift in nucleotide composition and codon usage within the genus Paramecium

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Barth, Dana ^a   Berendonk, Thomas U ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENUS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE; GENE ORDER; GENETICS;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM AURELIA; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS;

BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM;

EID: 79957646383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-272     Document Type: Article

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